The Tag celebratory 6th anniversary game jam has drawn to a close. All teams completed wonderful and marvellous things. Who won? We cannot reveal that. For that, readers, you must visit the Tag blog. There you can see all of the games, find out who won and hear emotional, heartfelt pleas from the employees to …
Tag Games Celebrates 6th Birthday With Jam – LIVE
Tag Games is SIX years old today. Happy birthday Tag. They're the company behind games including Car Jack Streets, Funpark Friends, Doctor Who: Mazes of Time and True Grit. To celebrate, the company is holding its second annual Game Jam. Only this year, it's personal... Five teams of fearless development superstars will be slogging it …
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Cobra Nominated For European Games Award
Cobra's iBomber Defense Pacific has been nominated in the Best Mobile Games category in this year's European Games Awards. It's up against several other popular titles and is currently third in its category behind Burnout Crash and Another World 20th Anniversary Edition. This is something worth winning. Forget the Golden Rose of Montreaux, this competition …
Queens Awards For Enterprise
Are you a commercial organisation? Do you do business? Well? If so, then you may well be eligible to enter the Queens Award For Enterprise competition. It's a competition to reward enterprising companies, for their hard work and enterprise - and it's by her majesty The Queen. Which makes it more special than your average, …
BAFTA Scotland Awards 2012 – Call For Entries
The BAFTA In Scotland awards for 2012 are now open for entries. The games category is open to ALL games, created in Scotland, or by Scottish developers. The games award covers ALL platforms from Triple A console titles, through to free-to-play social titles. The most important criteria is that the game is publicly available. So, …
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Minecraft Xbox 360 – Biggest Ever Day 1 Sales – Profitable In First HOUR
As the headline suggests, the Xbox 360 version of indie sensation Minecraft has been doing rather well. Microsoft announced at the end of the week that the game had broken existing sales records for first day sales. While no figures have been announced, the game was apparently making profit within the first hour of release, …
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Scottish Climate Change App Competition – £50K Up For Grabs
There's an opportunity for the creative geniuses (genies?) of Scotland's interactive sector, to get their mitts on £50,000 in prize money, thanks to a new competition created by the Edinburgh Centre For Carbon Innovation and supported by the Scottish Government, Scottish & Southern Energy, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Microsoft and Scotland's 2020 Climate Group. The …
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Fund Shplem
Shplem is the BAFTA-nominated game, created in just 48 hours at the Scottish Game Jam, which took place at the start of the year. As well as the BAFTA, the game won the best tech and best artwork awards at the jam. Now Team Shpleh has started a crowd-funding project to help them turn the …
Developed By Chunk, Designed By Kids – Freewheelin’ – New For iOS & Android
There's a new App on the block - or should that be up on blocks - for your nearest Apple or Android device. Freewheelin' was developed by Glasgow's Chunk Games, but the design was created by a team of three (aged 16 & 17) from Earlston High School (in the Borders, near Melrose, for those …
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BAFTA Games Awards On TONIGHT – Including Dare Ones To Watch Trophy
If you work in the game industry and you're wondering why it's all gone very quiet down in London right now, It's the BAFTA Games awards tonight. The famous BAFTA masks will be handed out for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence, to games from all platforms and covering all manner of genres. Denki …
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